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09/08/2004 |
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| This interactive presentation with Nikola Filby, Associate Director of the Western Regional Educational Laboratory at WestEd, has been developed to give district leaders some guidance as they implement supplemental services. In doing so, it draws on examples from five diverse districts across the country whose implementation experiences yield some common themes and lessons that might be helpful to others working on supplemental services. |
Although the term "supplemental educational services" is enjoying newfound prominence, its meaning is as old as education itself: tutoring. This important provision of the No Child Left Behind Act provides eligible low-income parents with the chance to engage a highly skilled tutor, or access other forms of academic enrichment, to help their children catch up if they have fallen behind. For school districts, this extra help for their neediest students can be an important complement to ongoing school improvement efforts.
But as we have learned in the first two years of this historic law, successfully setting up a supplemental educational services program takes a lot of work and foresight. States and school districts both play integral roles in designing the scaffolding to support parental choice, but it falls primarily to the local district to bring SES to life for its families. To aid in that effort, this presentation shared the early implementation experiences of five districts across the country. Varying in size and setting, each has struggled with the same issue: how to ensure that parents can access services and students receive the help they need. |
Nikola Filby, Senior Program Director, WestEd
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